In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

In this post , I brought up the Canadian-born current Texas resident standup comic Ben Bankas, whose stage persona is in-your-face working class. One of his routines is embedded above (language warning). In a typical segment, he imitates an angry liberal lady podcaster: "F--- the Constitution. I don't care what a bunch of white men from 200 years ago.. . ." J---- C-----, they were right. Back then, they were like "Do not let these women vote. If you care about freedom of speech, you'd better not let these women vote." And now we did, and they're f------ screaming in their cars after they go to Sonic. The reason for his growing success is slightly puzzling. As I noted at the link, he plays to bourgeois, heavily college-educated audiences. He omits it from any thumbnail, but I strongly suspect he has a four-year degree himself; he knows his audience too well. Some -- maybe most -- of his audience have conventionally liberal views, but the...